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(68)Ga-Labeled Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen Ligand Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography for Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

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11C- or 18F-Choline PET/CT for Imaging Evaluation of Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer

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11C-Choline PET/CT as a guide to radiation treatment planning of lymph-node relapses in prostate cancer patients

scientific article published on 06 March 2014

11C-Choline PET/CT based Helical Tomotherapy as Treatment Approach for Bone Metastases in Recurrent Prostate Cancer Patients.

scientific article published on 19 September 2017

11C-choline PET/CT and PSA kinetics

scientific article published on 12 April 2013

11C-choline PET/CT predicts prostate cancer-specific survival in patients with biochemical failure during androgen-deprivation therapy.

scientific article published on 9 January 2014

11C-choline PET/CT predicts survival in prostate cancer patients with PSA < 1 NG/ml

scientific article published on 10 January 2019

11C-choline positron emission tomography/computerized tomography for preoperative lymph-node staging in intermediate-risk and high-risk prostate cancer: comparison with clinical staging nomograms

scientific article published on 18 April 2008

18F-FAZA PET imaging in tumor hypoxia: A focus on high-grade glioma

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

18F-FAZA PET/CT Hypoxia Imaging of High-Grade Glioma Before and After Radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 13 October 2017

18F-FAZA PET/CT in the Preoperative Evaluation of NSCLC: Comparison with 18F-FDG and Immunohistochemistry

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

18F-FDG PET reveals unique features of large vessel inflammation in patients with Takayasu's arteritis

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18F-FDG PET/CT and Urothelial Carcinoma: Impact on Management and Prognosis-A Multicenter Retrospective Study.

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

18F-FDG PET/CT for Early Postradiotherapy Assessment in Solitary Bone Plasmacytomas

scientific article published in August 2015

18F-FDG PET/CT in gastric MALT lymphoma: a bicentric experience

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

Added diagnostic value of respiratory-gated 4D 18F-FDG PET/CT in the detection of liver lesions: a multicenter study.

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Bone metastases are infrequent in patients with newly diagnosed prostate cancer: Analysis of their clinical and pathologic features

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

C-11 choline versus F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose for imaging meningiomas: an initial experience

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Characterization of preclinical models of prostate cancer using PET-based molecular imaging

scientific article published on 11 March 2009

Clinical Indications of C-Choline PET/CT in Prostate Cancer Patients with Biochemical Relapse

scientific article published on 12 March 2012

Clinical PET imaging of tumour hypoxia in lung cancer

Clinical evidence on PET/CT for radiation therapy planning in prostate cancer

scientific article published on 12 August 2010

Combined Use of TBNA and EBUS-TBNA in the Preoperative Staging of Lung Cancer Patients

article published in 2011

Comparison between the diagnostic accuracies of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography and conventional imaging in recurrent urothelial carcinomas: a retrospective, multicenter study.

scientific article published on 4 January 2018

Comparison of 18F-fluoroazomycin-arabinofuranoside and 64Cu-diacetyl-bis(N4-methylthiosemicarbazone) in preclinical models of cancer

scientific article published on 22 May 2013

Concomitant Lung Cancer and Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor: First Report of Hypoxia Imaging With 18F-FAZA PET/CT.

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

Current status and future perspectives of PET/MRI hybrid imaging

Detection and compensation of organ/lesion motion using 4D-PET/CT respiratory gated acquisition techniques

scientific article published on 12 August 2010

Detection of lymph-node metastases with integrated [11C]choline PET/CT in patients with PSA failure after radical retropubic prostatectomy: results confirmed by open pelvic-retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy

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Diagnosis of local recurrence after radical prostatectomy.

scientific article published on March 2004

Diagnostic accuracy of 18F-FDG PET/CT in characterizing ovarian lesions and staging ovarian cancer: correlation with transvaginal ultrasonography, computed tomography, and histology.

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Diagnostic accuracy of FDG PET/CT for clinical evaluation at the end of treatment of HL and NHL: a comparison of the Deauville Criteria (DC) and the International Harmonization Project Criteria (IHPC).

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Diagnostic and prognostic value of 18F-FDG PET/CT in recurrent germinal tumor carcinoma

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Detects Vessel Wall Inflammation in Patients With Giant Cell Arteritis

scientific article published on 15 August 2018

Early lung-cancer detection with spiral CT and positron emission tomography in heavy smokers: 2-year results

scientific article published in August 2003

Evaluation of Prostate Cancer with 11C-Choline PET/CT for Treatment Planning, Response Assessment, and Prognosis.

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FDG PET-derived parameters as prognostic tool in progressive malignant pleural mesothelioma treated patients

scientific article published on 06 June 2018

FDG Uptake by Prosthetic Arterial Grafts in Large Vessel Vasculitis Is Not Specific for Active Disease

scientific article published on 11 January 2017

FDG-PET/CT predicts outcome in oropharingeal carcinoma patients undergoing intensity modulated radiation therapy with dose escalation to FDG-avid tumour volumes.

scientific article published on 13 April 2017

First Evaluation of PET-Based Human Biodistribution and Dosimetry of 18F-FAZA, a Tracer for Imaging Tumor Hypoxia

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

Fluoro-deoxi-glucose uptake and angiogenesis are independent biological features in lung metastases.

scientific article published on May 2002

Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography improves preoperative staging of resectable lung metastasis

scientific article published in December 2003

Fluorodeoxyglucose uptake measured by positron emission tomography and standardized uptake value predicts long-term survival of CT screening detected lung cancer in heavy smokers

scientific article published in November 2009

High prevalence of (99m)tc-tetrofosmin reverse perfusion pattern in patients with myocardial infarction and angiographically smooth coronary arteries

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High-grade endometrial cancer: value of [(18)F]FDG PET/CT in preoperative staging.

scientific article published in June 2010

Hypoxia 18F-FAZA PET/CT imaging in lung cancer and high-grade glioma: open issues in clinical application

Imaging biomarkers in prostate cancer: role of PET/CT and MRI.

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Incidental finding of parathyroid adenoma with 11C-choline PET/CT.

scientific article published in June 2012

Initial prostate cancer diagnosis and disease staging--the role of choline-PET-CT.

scientific article published on 11 August 2015

Integrated FDG PET/CT in patients with persistent ovarian cancer: correlation with histologic findings.

scientific article published on November 2004

Integrated PET/CT as a first-line re-staging modality in patients with suspected recurrence of ovarian cancer

scientific article published on 20 December 2006

Intratumoral spatial distribution of hypoxia and angiogenesis assessed by 18F-FAZA and 125I-Gluco-RGD autoradiography

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Long-term outcomes of salvage lymph node dissection for clinically recurrent prostate cancer: results of a single-institution series with a minimum follow-up of 5 years.

scientific article published on 18 February 2014

Lymph node metastasis in patients with clinical early-stage cervical cancer: detection with integrated FDG PET/CT.

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Moderately Hypofractionated Helical IMRT, FDG-PET/CT-guided, for Progressive Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma in Patients With Intact Lungs

scientific article published on 03 September 2018

Motion management in positron emission tomography/computed tomography for radiation treatment planning

scientific article published on September 2012

New Clinical Indications for (18)F/(11)C-choline, New Tracers for Positron Emission Tomography and a Promising Hybrid Device for Prostate Cancer Staging: A Systematic Review of the Literature

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Oligorecurrent prostate cancer limited to lymph nodes: getting our ducks in a row

scientific article published on 11 May 2018

PET guidance in prostate cancer radiotherapy: Quantitative imaging to predict response and guide treatment

scientific article published on 11 April 2016

PET imaging for lymph node dissection in prostate cancer.

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PET/CT and Breast Cancer

PET/MRI

article published in 2013

PET/MRI and prostate cancer

PET/MRI in Neuroendocrine Tumours: Blessings and Curses

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

PET/MRI in gynecological tumors

PSA doubling time for prediction of [(11)C]choline PET/CT findings in prostate cancer patients with biochemical failure after radical prostatectomy

scientific article published on 20 March 2010

Pancreatic metastases from primary ileal NET only detected by 68Ga-DOTATOC PET/CT

scientific article published on 13 March 2020

Pelvic/retroperitoneal salvage lymph node dissection for patients treated with radical prostatectomy with biochemical recurrence and nodal recurrence detected by [11C]choline positron emission tomography/computed tomography.

scientific article published on 3 August 2011

Performance of beta- and high-energy gamma probes for the detection of cancer tissue in experimental surgical resection beds

scientific article published on 15 May 2011

Physical performance of the new hybrid PET∕CT Discovery-690.

scientific article published in October 2011

Positron detection for the intraoperative localisation of cancer deposits

scientific article published on 12 April 2007

Positron emission tomography for radiation treatment planning

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Positron emission tomography/computed tomography introduction in the clinical management of patients with suspected recurrence of ovarian cancer: a cost-effectiveness analysis.

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Post-therapy surveillance of patients with uterine cancers: value of integrated FDG PET/CT in the detection of recurrence.

scientific article published on 16 November 2006

Predictive factors of [(11)C]choline PET/CT in patients with biochemical failure after radical prostatectomy

scientific article published on 15 September 2009

Predictive value of (18)F-FDG PET/CT in restaging patients affected by ovarian carcinoma: a multicentre study

scientific article published on 18 September 2015

Predictive value of pre-therapy (18)F-FDG PET/CT for the outcome of (18)F-FDG PET-guided radiotherapy in patients with head and neck cancer

scientific article published on 29 August 2013

Preoperative staging of cervical cancer: Is 18-FDG-PET/CT really effective in patients with early stage disease?

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Pretreatment 18F-FAZA PET predicts success of hypoxia-directed radiochemotherapy using tirapazamine

scientific article published on June 2007

Prognostic role of FDG PET-derived parameters in preoperative staging of endometrial cancer

scientific article published on 17 December 2018

Prostate cancer imaging

Prostate cancer recurrence: can PSA guide imaging?

Prostate-Specific Antigen Velocity Versus Prostate-Specific Antigen Doubling Time for Prediction of 11C Choline PET/CT in Prostate Cancer Patients With Biochemical Failure After Radical Prostatectomy

scholarly article by Giampiero Giovacchini et al published April 2012 in Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Quantifying the robustness of [ 18 F]FDG-PET/CT radiomic features with respect to tumor delineation in head and neck and pancreatic cancer patients

scientific article published on 23 May 2018

Radiation Treatment of Lymph Node Recurrence from Prostate Cancer: Is 11C-Choline PET/CT Predictive of Survival Outcomes?

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Re: Daniel E. Spratt, Herbert A. Vargas, Zachary S. Zumsteg, et al. Patterns of Lymph Node Failure after Dose-escalated Radiotherapy: Implications for Extended Pelvic Lymph Node Coverage. Eur Urol 2017;71;37-43: High-dose Radiotherapy and Pelvic Lym

scientific article published on 05 January 2017

Re: Nicolas Mottet, Joaquim Bellmunt, Michel Bolla, et al. EAU Guidelines on Prostate Cancer. Part II: Treatment of Advanced, Relapsing, and Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol 2011;59:572–83

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Recurrent renal cell carcinoma: clinical and prognostic value of FDG PET/CT.

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Reply to Egesta Lopci, Arturo Chiti, and Massimo Lazzeri's Letter to the Editor re: Laura Evangelista, Alberto Briganti, Stefano Fanti, et al. New Clinical Indications for 18F/11C-choline, New Tracers for Positron Emission Tomography and a Promising

scientific article published on 26 March 2016

Reply to letter of Adams and Kwee: Critical considerations on the predictive value of end-of-treatment FDG/PET in lymphoma.

scientific article published on 28 October 2016

Reply to the letter “Choline PET/CT compared with bone scintigraphy in the detection of bone metastases in prostate cancer patients”

Respiratory gated PET/CT in a European multicentre retrospective study: added diagnostic value in detection and characterization of lung lesions

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Role of 18F-FDG PET in the management of gestational trophoblastic neoplasia.

scientific article published on 12 January 2013

Role of 18F-choline PET/CT in biochemically relapsed prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy: correlation with trigger PSA, PSA velocity, PSA doubling time, and metastatic distribution

scientific article published in January 2013

Role of PET/CT in the clinical management of locally advanced pancreatic cancer

scientific article published on 01 September 2012

Role of the integrated FDG PET/CT in the surgical management of patients with high risk clinical early stage endometrial cancer: detection of pelvic nodal metastases.

scientific article published on 19 August 2009

Sarcoidosis mimicking metastatic gynaecological malignancies: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge?

scientific article published on 25 December 2012

Sensitivity of fluorine-18-fluoromethylcholine PET/CT to prostate-specific antigen over different plasma levels: a retrospective study in a cohort of 192 patients with prostate cancer

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Spinal cord involvement secondary to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma identified by ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT.

scientific article published on 14 December 2012

The Authors Reply

The relationship between local recurrences and distant metastases in prostate cancer: can 11C-choline PET/CT contribute to understand the link?

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

The rising PET: the increasing use of choline PET/CT in prostate cancer

scholarly article by Arturo Chiti & Maria Picchio published 20 November 2010 in European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

The role of PET/computed tomography scan in the management of prostate cancer

scientific article published on May 2011

The role of choline positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the management of patients with prostate-specific antigen progression after radical treatment of prostate cancer

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

The role of positron emission tomography using carbon-11 and fluorine-18 choline in tumors other than prostate cancer: a systematic review

scientific article published on 08 May 2012

Toxicity and efficacy of salvage carbon 11-choline positron emission tomography/computed tomography-guided radiation therapy in patients with lymph node recurrence of prostate cancer.

scientific article published on 22 April 2016

Tumour hypoxia imaging with [18F]FAZA PET in head and neck cancer patients: a pilot study

scientific article published on 20 April 2007

Unusual presentation of sarcoid-like reaction on bone marrow level associated with mediastinal lymphadenopathy on 18F-FDG-PET/CT resembling an early recurrence of Hodgkin's Lymphoma

scientific article published on 26 April 2012

Utility of [11C]choline PET/CT in guiding lesion-targeted salvage therapies in patients with prostate cancer recurrence localized to a single lymph node at imaging: results from a pathologically validated series

scientific article published on 13 June 2013

Value of [11C]choline-positron emission tomography for re-staging prostate cancer: a comparison with [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography.

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When to Perform Preoperative Bone Scintigraphy for Kidney Cancer Staging: Indications for Preoperative Bone Scintigraphy

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

When to perform bone scan in patients with newly diagnosed prostate cancer: external validation of the currently available guidelines and proposal of a novel risk stratification tool

scientific article published on 18 December 2009

Writing PET into existence.

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[(11)C]choline uptake with PET/CT for the initial diagnosis of prostate cancer: relation to PSA levels, tumour stage and anti-androgenic therapy

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[11C]Choline PET/CT detection of bone metastases in patients with PSA progression after primary treatment for prostate cancer: comparison with bone scintigraphy

scientific article published on 20 September 2011

[11C]Choline PET/CT predicts survival in hormone-naive prostate cancer patients with biochemical failure after radical prostatectomy

[11C]choline positron emission tomography/computerized tomography for early detection of prostate cancer recurrence in patients with low increasing prostate specific antigen.

scientific article published on 16 November 2012

[11C]choline positron emission tomography/computerized tomography to restage prostate cancer cases with biochemical failure after radical prostatectomy and no disease evidence on conventional imaging

scientific article published on September 2010

[18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography as a useful indicator of metastatic gestational trophoblastic tumor: preliminary results in three patients.

scientific article published in October 2003

[68Ga]Ga-PSMA and [68Ga]Ga-RM2 PET/MRI vs. Histopathological Images in Prostate Cancer: A New Workflow for Spatial Co-Registration

scientific article published in 2023

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